1 Practical Tips
General things that will make your life easier.
1.1 Use a cloud storage back-up
- Dropbox, onedrive
- Have free and/or student versions
- Always have a back-up of your files in case you lose or damage your computer
1.2 Use a reference manager
- Zotero, mendeley, endnote
- Have free and/or student versions
- You can use these to keep track of literature you find, organise your notes, and automatically create your references.
- You can use these for all your classes, but will save you so much time on big projects like this.
1.3 Would recommend using secondary data
- Collecting your own primary data (interviews, surveys) takes a great deal of time
- There is a huge range of available secondary data sources you can use for almost any research topic